Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133538699
The Georgian Group Journal
Anonim
The Georgian Group Journal
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The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden
Kate Felus
Author : Kate Felus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786730077
The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden by Kate Felus Pdf
Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the eighteenth century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks. Its publication coincides with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, and the book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context.
The Georgian London Town House
Kate Retford,Susanna Avery-Quash
Author : Kate Retford,Susanna Avery-Quash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501337307
The Georgian London Town House by Kate Retford,Susanna Avery-Quash Pdf
For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.
Hidden Patrons
Amy Boyington
Author : Amy Boyington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350358638
Hidden Patrons by Amy Boyington Pdf
An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon elaborate architectural schemes. Hidden Patrons dismantles this myth - revealing instead that women were at the heart of the architectural patronage of the day, exerting far more influence and agency than has previously been recognised. Architectural drawing and design, discourse, and patronage were interests shared by many women in the eighteenth century. Far from being the preserve of elite men, architecture was a passion shared by both sexes, intellectually and practically, as long as they possessed sufficient wealth and autonomy. In an accessible, readable account, Hidden Patrons uncovers the role of women as important patrons and designers of architecture and interiors in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Exploring country houses, Georgian townhouses, villas, estates, and gardens, it analyses female patronage from across the architectural spectrum, and examines the work of a range of pioneering women from grand duchesses to businesswomen to lowly courtesans. Re-examining well-known Georgian masterpieces alongside lesser-known architectural gems, Hidden Patrons unearths unseen archival material to provide a fascinating new view of the role of women in the architecture of the Georgian era.
Fonthill Recovered
Caroline Dakers
Author : Caroline Dakers
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9781787350465
Fonthill Recovered by Caroline Dakers Pdf
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman
Richard Hall
Author : Richard Hall
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1846245230
The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman by Richard Hall Pdf
It is everyday life that abounds in the diaries of Richard Hall, a sometimes pious Baptist haberdasher who kept shop at one end or other of the old London Bridge through much of the late 18th century. He recorded what he ate, what he purchased, how he slept and above all what the weather was like in obsessive detail.
Encyclopedia of Interior Design
Joanna Banham
Author : Joanna Banham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1469 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136787584
Encyclopedia of Interior Design by Joanna Banham Pdf
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rural Urbanism
Dana Arnold
Author : Dana Arnold
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0719068207
Rural Urbanism by Dana Arnold Pdf
This original and innovative book examines a period in which the development of London was perhaps at its most intense, for in the opening decades of the nineteenth century a concerted attempt was made to transform the metropolis into a modern European capital. This study of London landscapes will be of relevance to a broad range of researchers, academics and those with a lively interest in architectural, social, economic and cultural history.
Re-Presenting the Metropolis
Dana Arnold
Author : Dana Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351551359
Re-Presenting the Metropolis by Dana Arnold Pdf
The evolution of an urban self-consciousness in London in the early nineteenth century played a fundamental role in the shaping of the city. In this volume Dana Arnold explores the responses to the city among the urban bourgeoisie and their influence on the experience and development of London. Each of the chapters re-presents the metropolis through a thematic consideration of the urban infrastructure and architecture including public open spaces, new roads and bridges, public monuments, and buildings for show including museums, galleries and townhouses. These discrete ?walks? around London cohere into a kaleidoscopic view of the metropolis as a continually evolving entity. The nature and perception of urban experience and social life are mapped against this changing image of London revealing at once the modernity of the metropolis and the importance of the past - especially antiquity - to the construction of this transient present. Evidence of attitudes towards the metropolis is drawn from a range of contemporary visual and written sources including commentaries, guidebooks, literature and parliamentary reports and enquiries. The study of sensory responses to the city allows the exploration of the dynamic between city and society and a broader cultural understanding of urban form. London is re-presented as a matrix of key architectural, social and cultural themes and as the emblematic expression of different kinds of identities relating to gender,class and nationhood.
Georgian Gothic
Peter Lindfield
Author : Peter Lindfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781783271276
Georgian Gothic by Peter Lindfield Pdf
Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
Margot Finn,Kate Smith
Author : Margot Finn,Kate Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787350274
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn,Kate Smith Pdf
The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture
James Stevens Curl,Susan Wilson
Author : James Stevens Curl,Susan Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780191053856
The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture by James Stevens Curl,Susan Wilson Pdf
Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles. This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. The full bibliography to the first edition (previously only available online) has also been fully updated and expanded, and incorporated into this new edition. This is an essential work of reference for anyone with an interest in architectural and garden history. With clear descriptions providing in-depth analysis, it is invaluable for students, professional architects, art historians, and anyone interested in architecture and garden design, and provides a fascinating wealth of information for the general reader.
Georgian Spring
Wendell Steavenson
Author : Wendell Steavenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 1905712154
Georgian Spring by Wendell Steavenson Pdf
Ex-cop Winnie Farlowe has been retired from police work due to a back injury, and has been fighting the bottle instead of bad guys ever since. But suddenly he meets Tess Binder, a stunning, three-time divorcée from the Balboa Bay Club where wallets are fat, bikinis are skimpy, and cosmetic surgery is one sure way to a billionaire's bank account. She believes her father's suicide was actually a murder and wants Winnie to help her prove it. Death and chicanery flourish amidst ranches, mansions, and yachting parties. Publishers Weekly called it "comic and deeply moving . . . a stupendous climax . . . virtually sure to be hailed as Wambaugh's best." And the San Diego Union-Tribune said, "a profoundly serious work and in reading it I laughed my head off."
Sacred Architecture of London
Nigel Pennick
Author : Nigel Pennick
Publisher : Aeon Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781781810552
Sacred Architecture of London by Nigel Pennick Pdf
London has a unique series of churches built after the Great Fire of 1666, when most of the City of London was destroyed. Among these iconic churches are St Paul's, St Mary-le-Bow, St Bride's, St Clement Danes, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary-le-Strand, St George Bloomsbury and Christ Church Spitalfields. They remain today as outstanding landmarks that define their local cityscapes. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and his followers - Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Archer and James - these beautiful churches embody spiritual principles expressed through the conventions of Classical architecture. Underlying their outward, visible forms is sacred geometry, an ancient art that explores the invisible inner structure of the Cosmos and gives expression to it in physical form. In this book, Nigel Pennick explains the sacred geometry, spiritual symbols and emblems that make these churches among the most notable buildings of London.
Glorious Visions
Helene Furján
Author : Helene Furján
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136786747
Glorious Visions by Helene Furján Pdf
Strongly interdisciplinary in its scope, this book situates Soane’s house-museum within the broader context of early nineteenth-century British aesthetics, theories of taste, and cultural currents, viewing it as a cultural and artistic product as well as an architectural and museological one.